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[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
I'll think about it... I'm not sure whether people still have problems with permissions if it's open-source and they can read the code
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Just published an update containing some bug fixes for uploading files, mailto: links, and the back button behaving weirdly. Also thanks to snowblond for an updated German translation.

Also, I didn't post about it, but the beta version that had been on github has been pushed to the play store with a long change log.

I apologize that I did not update it earlier in the summer, but I work 8 hours a day during the summer so the substantial update took time to prepare. I believe that infrequent but substantial updates are better than frequent but useless updates. Now that I have this big update out, I'll probably be updating it frequently with small bugfixes (I've had a couple in the past day).
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Don't know about the patchnote but the app now run faster on my XT320. Thanks you ! (will have to take habit of the new icon)

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Great! I know new icons are hard to get used to and one person emailed me saying they didn't like it, but I had to change it because the old one wasn't original enough.

I basically had copied and pasted some clip art onto a circle. The new one doesn't look as realistic, but it isn't as cliche as a cloud with lightning. Hopefully it grows on you :)
[Android Apps and Games] Hav4k:
Save data mode like Opera Mini or UC Browser? Thanks for reply.
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
There's ways to solve that problem, make an icon picker like chainfire did on SuperSU :victory:

But a problem will come, it will take more storage space, a solution would be probably, again, an optional package (like i suggested for the google chrome sync). It would be important to revert to default icon if the package isn't found to prevent weird behavior. But i have no idea if it's possible without something starting at boot, and it would not be battery/cpu time/whatever you wish friendly.

Another method could be to have lightning download from a webserver the icon you pick and apply it, with an option to revert to default and delete the downloaded icon to reclaim space. If you decide to go that way and do not wish to setup a place from where the app can download the icons, i can help and grant you a space for that on a web server (99.7% uptime), few icons won't kill me, plus i'll be helping someone in a great project, only happiness.

Best Regards.

I think you can disable flash and image loading ? If that's not enough, Lightning's author would not be able to help you without setting up a proxy server to compress and filter all the stuff like Opera Mini and UC Browser do. While it would be awesome, i'm not sure anthonycr have time or will to do it, if i'm not mistaken anthonycr wrote about wishes to not setup a server to act between Lightning's user and the requested data source.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Lol, you really overthought that :P

I'm not familiar with the save data mode of either of those browsers. If you're looking to save mobile data, you can disable image loading in advanced settings
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
I really like customization for one part, and prefer the older icon, that's all why, thinking of suggestion that may make everyone happy.:angel:

It's also incredibly bad-ass to be able to change the icon.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Adobe Flash support is completely broken in Android 4.3, please star this issue on Google code so Google can make the WebView run better in future versions http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=58608

Issue submitted by Naked Browser developer Aminaked.
[Android Apps and Games] LeJolly:
Has problems with androidfilehost, when I try to download something from there I just get a text file saying that I should enable JavaScript (which is enabled and works in otherppages)
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
I'll check it out.
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
Long press tab to close. You are the man. Comments reserved. Thanks for link

Pressing THANKS easier than typing.

Sent from s5360 GB DDMD1 rooted stock.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
So I just tried downloading something from androidfilehost and it worked fine on android 4.3...

What version of android are you downloading on and is it just specific files and if it is just specific files could you provide me a link so I can test it?
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Ahh yes, long press to close. I removed that a while ago due to some technicalities but I can certainly add it again if I remember :)
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
Your browser UI has close icon. Single tap should be fine. Long press is not need to have feature here.

Pressing THANKS easier than typing.

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How does this browser handle activex controls? Like I have my office spreadsheet for timesheet submission, should it be loaded with mobile or desktop user agent?
[Android Apps and Games] LeJolly:
Every file I've tried so far, this for example http://m1.androidfilehost.com/downl...om.android.vending-4.3.10.apk&action=download Android version is 4.2.2, tried with various different ROMs and works in none of them. Not a big deal, I just copy&paste the link to stock browser and download it that way, but it's just a little annoying :)
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Oh ok, thats good then. I'll just leave it with the single tap.

I don't think Android can emulate Active X as that is a windows program. WebView isn't complex enough to be able to do that.

Thanks, hopefully it will be in the next bug fix update. I believe the JavaScript doesn't play nicely with my downloading code so we'll see if I can fix that.
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Yep, had trouble downloading for some places using Lightning (falcon twitter client for example)

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Just a heads up. There's an update coming through the play store that will change the browser icon AGAIN. I'm doing this because I noticed a comment saying I copied some random ext partition manager.

Of course I didn't copy it, but I looked up the and sadly the icon looked like the current one except rotated 45 degrees with a darker blue, orange instead of yellow, and a white bolt. Next to each other, it looked like my app copied that ones icon. I therefore changed back to the old icon... I'm sorry to those that preferred the new one.

I'll probably leave the old one (with the cloud and lightning) permanently and just tweak it a little instead of what I had.

Again, sorry for the icon change, I know changing icons is annoying.

Also, I added Baidu and Yandex search engines to Lightning browser so our Chinese and Russian friends can search in their own language. I also fixed an issue where the download location wasn't sticking. For now downloading is restricted to folders in the sdcard (or storage) partition only.
[Android Apps and Games] mofancier:
it is small and fast, well work
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
Nice update. Browser became my favourite. Its stylish and lightweight.

If flash changes all linkers will change. We will update browser as simple as that. No use crying over spilt milk.

Icon is fine. Suggest it need not be changed many times as branding will be lost. Remember firefox on PC, mobile easy to recognize correct?

By the way if youtube is flash enabled why cannot its libs be used to play flash content on all cell phones? Just an idea sir ji.

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[Android Apps and Games] Snowblond:
Hello. :)

Is it possible to integrate "back" and "forward" with swiping to the left/to the right? :o

I mean: You swipe the website from left to right to go to the website you visited before, and you swipe from right to left to go forward.

Best regards,

Christina
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
Good idea :)

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[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Huh. That is quite an interesting idea. However I don't think that the YouTube app uses flash at all, I'll check it out though.

Is possible, and is probable. Thats on my list to do :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
I know this is non proxy. Can you make it a little faster please?

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[Android Apps and Games] rjspark89:
[REQUEST] awesome but...

hey awesome browser !.. i was pleasantly suprised when it outstripped opera mini!!... btw i have feature request.. im using a huawei ideos u8800 pro running GB 2.3.5.. my phone has a softkey search button.. could you add support for that? so that even when im in a page.. if i press the search soft button i can perform a search.. you know with out actually clicking the url bar, clearing the current site address and then typing,,,

that is the only feature i find missing.. otherwise its quite complete.!! please consider this request! alot of the users with this softkey search button would appreciate it!! alot!

thats the one plus point to opera mini...because it does that.. perfectly!
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
I can't speed up the internet lol. The browser is as quick as I can make it.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Sure I can do that. I also have a phone with a search key so it will be easy to test.
[Android Apps and Games] rjspark89:
an observation!

well i liked it so much that i installed it on my nexus 7.. and... i noticed... that on the nexus 7 running 4.2.2 the browser has both forward and backward buttons... whereas they are absent on my phone which runs on gingerbread 2.3.5.. now my phone has 3.8 screen size.. so i dont know if you left out these buttons on phones because of the lesser screen real estate(if so.. good thinking!) or if it is something to do with the two different versions of android being used..

But i must say that if you cant build in the swipe left/right thing like the one of the previous posters suggested it would be great but in case you can't then you could atleast include a forward key., i guess phones will have a back key anyway so they can serve that function.

and keep up the good work... still "lightning fast!":good::good:
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Yes, I remove the buttons on smaller screens, because the search bar got unbearably small with them there.

BUT, have no fear! Yesterday, I added the swipe feature to navigate back and forth. It is really great and I can't believe I waited this long to add the functionality. I'll put an update out tomorrow with it. I was going to do it yesterday, but I didn't want to rush the update out the door and have to put out a bug fix.

The turkish language will be added in this next update. Thanks goes [MENTION=5387640]nahsen27[/MENTION] who so kindly offered to translate the app.
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
Agreed. Progress bar here is circular and does not let know how much page left to be loaded.

2. If page is rendered while its loaded it will give impression of fast loading also users can scroll while page being loaded. Ignore this comment if already in place.

God is great.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
I'll add a horizontal progress bar, but I cannot change the way the browser renders. Android's core handles all of that for better or for worse.
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
Sounds good.:thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] petrea_86:
Please add an exit button. It remains in tray even after long pressing back button. And also restore the option to manually change the UA. Whith mozilla's UA, facebook's mobile page is different and is loaded faster.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
What do you mean by "remains in tray?" Do you mean shows up in recent apps or shows up in cached processes?

I will add an option for manual UA again.
[Android Apps and Games] petrea_86:
It remains in cache processes. Is there a way to add a quick scroll option like in opera mini?
[Android Apps and Games] m0d:
Add url on link long-press

Currently when a link is long-pressed the url link is not visible,

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It would be great if it can be added,

for example firefox has it shown

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[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Android leaves it in cache so that it's quicker to start up the next time it's open. It doesn't consume any battery to leave it in cache and Android will automatically clear it from memory when it decides it needs the RAM. In fact, exit buttons are against the Android design guidelines. So sorry about the exit button, but I can try to add a quickscroll button.

I sure can do that.
[Android Apps and Games] m0d:
Thank you

One way would be just to replace the question with the link itself

Also, the baby blue colour is easy on the eyes and Holo style
[Android Apps and Games] Snowblond:
But please don't use baby blue. :o Many users (like me) have themes installed, so that wouldn't fit anymore.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
I'm just leaving it stock, don't worry (it changes to whatever your theme is, stock happens to be HOLO).

/s IT'S NOT BABY BLUE ANYWAY, IT'S CALLED HOLO. FATHER MATIAS IS ANGRY! /s

Sent from my Xperia Tablet Z
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Update rolling out over the next couple hours. Be on the lookout (or get it now from github)
[Android Apps and Games] Snowblond:
The swiping gesture is working perfectly! <3 Thanks alot! :)

I have fullscreen mode activated. When I press the softkey search button, I only see my keyboard and when I type something I see the suggestions, but I don't see WHAT I am actually typing, because the url bar is hidden 'cause of the fullscreen mode.

I hope you understand what I mean. :o

Also: Is it possible to change the color of the horizontal process bar? It's holo, but like I said before.. it doesn't fit to some user's themes.

Best regards,

Christina
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
LOL that's funny that it's showing the suggestions without the URL bar. I'll fix that for you.

I don't want to change the progress bar because the rest of the app will not be affected by a theme anyway since most of my colors and images are independent of the OS because I wanted it to look good on 2.2-2.3. Hope you understand.

Glad you're enjoying the swiping thing. I really like it too!
[Android Apps and Games] Snowblond:
Sure, I understand that. I still love your app. :)

And thanks for fixing it.
[Android Apps and Games] 0jmaster0:
Hello. Tried your browser - as for me it is one of the most comfortable browsers for 7` tablet. Mine is SGTab 2 7,0. Main plus for me are small navigation and tabs bars(instead of stock samsung ones, can compare in next shown screenshots) But there are few problems:

1) Sometimes new tab creates as first one(instead of last or next in list) and can crash browser on closing

2) Highly reccomend to add button to clear address(all native browsers have it)

Here as it lookes like in my stock browser :

3) If I make long press on image with link and press "open in new tab" - in new tab will be shown only this picture. I suggest(with fixing it) to add another button, something like "view picture in new tab".(Or even problem occupies the receiver of links, it returns link to picture, not the link to page, problem shows itself best on sites like donmai.us(careful, anime pictures site, sometimes can be nsfw))

4) Can't understand how private mode shown. The best idea I saw was in native samsung browser - just another tab, but with some kind of sign on it.

5) Useragent change. It works only after relaunching program. And again I suggest to create checkbox in menu button(where are history, bookmarks etc) called something like "pc mode", after checking of which page will reload with new useragent.

Again, screen from samsung native browser :

Thank you again for good browser, hope you'll fix all the bugs and then it become one of the best browsers :)
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
1. I'm working on this issue, it's really weird. It's due to the way I'm creating everything and stuff. I'm sure if I had more experience I would have done it better but I don't so I have the problem.

2. Yep, agreed.

3. I'll try to fix that, there's some weird stuff with the way android handles long clicks on webpages.

4. Click the menu button, and then click "incognito mode". I don't want it just to be a new tab, because if the browser is closed with that tab open, the contents of the page can be seen in recent apps which defeats the purpose of private browsing. With opening a whole new screen, when you close it it completely removes any chance of seeing what was being browsed. Also I wanted to remove options to share, change settings, and add bookmarks while in incognito.

5. That's another thing I'll probably be adding sooner or later.

tl;dr I'm working on #1, planning on doing stuff for #2 and 3, leaving #4 the way it is, and hoping to add #5 in the future.
[Android Apps and Games] 0jmaster0:
Thank you for that :)

Found one more problem: some kind of problem with cookies. For example I give russian forum "4pda". After I enter login and pass the page goes to index page just as login and pass are correct, but there are no logging in(forum still prints "hello, guest" and asks to enter). Once I succeeded to enter, but now it kick me out and don't want to log in. There are no problems with any other browser, so it is something with your one...
[Android Apps and Games] nahsen27:
Nice

nice app. thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Your welcome!

Interesting. I'll keep an eye out for cookie issues.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Just a heads up that I'll be on vacation with my family in a rural area for a week starting tomorrow so there won't be any development due to lack of internet access for the next week. So when I don't respond to questions, don't get mad it's because I'm not around.

If you see a question you know the answer to, please feel free to answer it because otherwise it will be a while before I can.
[Android Apps and Games] 0jmaster0:
Ok, found one more thing, that is required :) Possibility to download page or download picture. I tried to save picture from page and I had to open it in new tab and only then save :) Please add it too :)
[Android Apps and Games] m0d:
Is there a way to disable gestures?

As it seems I activate "back" more than a few times when not intended.

Also, I am having difficulties copying and pasting text from webpages, especially when modifying words to select

Thanks in advance
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
No.
[Android Apps and Games] Asadullah:
I only read the last two pages so if any one has mentioned this than I apologize. I'm running lightning plus on my ouya and it works great but the play store shows it as incompatible. I've been side loading it from my phone when there are updates but I'm lazy at times.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Hmmm, could you check if Naked Browser is compatible? I have a hunch the GPS permission might be what's making it show up as incompatible, I know Naked Browser doesn't have that permission so if it shows up as compatible I'll try to release a play store version without the location permission for non-GPS devices.
[Android Apps and Games] petrea_86:
Can you add quick back option? so previous pages won't load again.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
I haven't ever seen or used quick back, but I'll see if it can be done. Might not be doable with regular WebView. Do you know which browsers use quick back?

Edit: nevermind, I searched and found maxthon which uses it. Quick back can't be done natively using the webview so don't get your hopes up, but I will try and see if there's another way to do it.
[Android Apps and Games] Il Giulione:
I'm using this browser since some months, I love it, thanks ;)

Inviato dal mio Evodroid W10 con Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] electricpunch:
Nice app, thanks !
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
Good update. So nice to see dev implementing constructive user feedback. Progress bar, gestures speed, stability, close icon tab close all is good.

God is the original developer :)
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Well I wouldn't go that far haha :P but glad you're happy
[Android Apps and Games] nhymxu:
auto hide tab-bar/url bar when scroll down. and show it when press menu/ scroll up is good feature
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Autohide when scrolling down is available in full screen mode so just turn that on... Unless you're complimenting the browser on thus feature. Scrolling up at all will show the bar again, easy as tapping menu
[Android Apps and Games] Asadullah:
Yeah naked browser shows up for me in the play store. I saw something I think yesturday about setting permissions and that you can set the permission but there's a way to set it so that it queries the device for the permission but the app would still work even if it didn't have the hardware.

Also how do you feel about shortcut keys. I don't wanna touch your baby (app) but I've been messing around learning to program and I was looking at setting a keyevent (KEYCODE_F5) to refresh the current webpage. it seems fairly straight forward and simple.

EDIT: First part probably didn't make sense
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
Thanks for checking. I'll try to change it to request permission only if the device has GPS. I'd rather the system notify the user anyway when my app asks permission than ask for it outright.

Yes, I can add F5, and while I'm at it, other common shortcuts. It's open-source for a reason, so people can help improve it by making suggestions to add features (or of course add code). It would be really simple, I've only not added them because I'm not particularly familiar with shortcuts (I don't really use them on PC).
[Android Apps and Games] Asadullah:
Thanks man. I only know a few and f5 thanks to xda because the rom developers for the htc hero a few years ago would tell you around 11pm that they were coming out with a rom sometime that night and me and some others would press f5 (refresh) till it arrived while talking. Anyways...
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
Shortcuts usually are standardized. Also device should have keyboard like hacker's keyboard to support it. So caution needs to be exercised not to override default shortcuts eg: Replacing F5 with backspace. Backspace was a bug in IE. When on form text box backspace took you to previous page.

God is Original Developer :)
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Since you're talking about keyboard shortcuts, i guess we can add all chromium's shortcuts.

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
So right now, I have the following shortcuts implemented:

F5: Refresh

ESC: Stop loading

TAB: New Tab

F12: Close Browser

F1: Open Settings

Any I should change and/or add?
[Android Apps and Games] Asadullah:
This is cool!

Backspace as page back.

home to go home page

I don't know

Thanks this is probably the best browser out right now.
[Android Apps and Games] anthonycr:
I'd do backspace but it conflicts with erasing text haha
[Android Apps and Games] Asadullah:
It's cool it's still the baddest browser out
[Android Apps and Games] vikraminside:
Even the emperor microsoft does mistakes. Backspace v/s textbox not sure why it was not thought before. it could have been in combination shift + backspace or something similar.

What shortcut for tab switch just tab? Textboxes can be tabbed remember. So ctrl with tab be better as in ff and ie.

God is the original developer :)